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THE REVIEWER REVIEWED. 341
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[The " National Review," October 1858, A...
of b mankind an increasing will probabl assimilation y continue between to be the marked characters , as it of has the hitherto sexes and been a ,
closer y aiyproach to identity in their pursuits . " We have reallnothing' to add to these admirable sentiments .
Of the position y of the young and unmarried of the female sex , tlie reviewer remarks : —
functions u A great is pushed deal of arises the false from extreme its having to which exclusivel sprung the from claim the for t real women wants ti of male of d a
point certain of t ion lass view of , an this of d having bo its d members of been female argued . - It ri is h too t v the indica common tors y t , from thoug t unmarrie h unexpresse posi d women on an d , g
and have assump unprotected riht td females d y t _constit hat the ute the sex ; and ts of that socie , to ty meet shall their wants uset they and
a go emanarrangemen p remodelled shall b . d They fothe have i a right socia , and l organisa a very fair tion rig and ht , to demand justl that to room some
e mae r m n our , may y , extent pation , and comp the lain gaining that , un of der our independent present arran livelihood gements , are the too avenues much to choked
occuan w against omen them and the ; but field they of h circumstance ave no right bes whatever t adapted to jud to them ge of , the according nature to of the all
wants and , ideas of this section of them . " But the reviewer soon answers his own objection , and shews that
the movement on behalf of women must needs for a time press the claims of the unmarried .
the * conventional Still , " says he influences , at present which " the whole surround mass and of social mould opinion them about are women mainl , y
, disposed adapted to to deny their that position both the as wives direct training and mothers of girls . We and are the b environment y no means
altered of opinio so n as in to which leave them they live with , mi fuller ght resources advantageousl to meet y be the in demands some degree and Buthe addsin this
face the privations of unmarried life . , " , " an excess readil direction grant is most ) " and of all there things is undoubtedl to be deprecated y a growing , " ( a bod qualification y of oi > inion which which we
favors y this excess , . " The statement contained , however , in this last clause , we cannot
_grant . to bear " The upon real tell difficulty young whether women , they " says are whose our to reviewer destiny encounter , in "is life those as is to as perils the yet influence undecided of matrimony to be , of broug whom over ht
none can which indulgentl decadescent y or ironicall virgins y called sigh so the afiecting unmarried state of ly sing , or le are blessedness endent to enjoy . what Are has women been
education to be broug be ht devised up to which be wives will or adapt them equall _indej _^ y well women to be either , or can ? an If aimed atbut is this the thiwhich the
more there enli can g , htened this is the reprover thing s to of be what are p ; leasantly called female ng wrongs do aim at ? Doubtless the education of girls has hitherto fallen short of both these
most aims , advantageous and confined to itself themselves in great either measure in the to married teaching or them unmarried , not thing state s , but things adapted to get them married . "
It will be seen from these ample quotations—and they might be enlarged—that on all essential points the " National Review "
_g make ives - us believe the field resistance . The is bug , that bear in that Eng seem land s to the fri cause ghten has it into fallen a _,
into the hands of
" Shallow and doctrinaire minds , " whereby " wild projects and untenable
The Reviewer Reviewed. 341
THE REVIEWER REVIEWED . 341
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/53/
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